PM tells Muslims: 'Reclaim Islam' from ISIS

WARNING: David Cameron said we need to combat extremism as well as violent extremism

The Prime Minister warned an "extremist world view" was "incubating" in British schools, universities and prisons – and we need to ROOT IT OUT.

He told an anti-terror summit at the UN that Islamic terrorism starts when Muslims develop a "grievance narrative" and begin believing attacks against Jews and Christians are OK.

This leads onto strapping on bomb vests and beheading British hostages in the desert, he said.

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UNITED: The PM was speaking at the UN summit on countering Isil and countering violent extre...

Mr Cameron told gathered world leaders – including Barak Obama – we need to take away the "building blocks of extremism".

And he said Muslim leaders have a special responsibility to call-out Isis as a "perversion of Islam".

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PERVERTS: Mr Cameron said Isis was a 'perversion of Islam'

The Conservative leader – who has faced criticism for his soft approach to Isis – said: "The boy who straps a bomb to his chest and blows up an Iraqi town – the guy that stands in the desert with knife having just beheaded a British hostage or whoever – they don’t get there from a standing start.

"They have extremist views and an extremist mindset before they make that final decision to be an extremist terrorist.

“There is nothing more powerful than … when Muslim leaders and Muslim countries reclaim their religion and explain why what these people are saying is not Islam – it is a perversion of Islam.”

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"Now maybe it starts with being told that Christians and Muslims can’t live together.

"Maybe it moves on to being told that Muslims everywhere in the world are under attack – the grievance narrative.

"Sometimes it’s being told that the terrible attack that took place in the city on 9/11 was somehow a Jewish conspiracy.

"And then it goes on to being told that violence is sometimes justified – that a suicide bomb if it happens in Israel, well maybe that’s not so bad.

"And you get an extremist mindset that then moves on to the belief that taking part in violent jihad or joining Isil or joining any other of these franchises – Al Shabab or others – is justified."